Made up of two sets of then couples
— Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus and Benny
Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad — ABBA has sold over 380 million
albums and singles worldwide and is the
third-best-selling group of all time, behind the Beatles and
Queen and ahead of the Rolling Stones.

But in 1979,
at the height of their success, Fältskog and Ulvaeus
divorced while Lyngstad and Andersson called it quits
soon after in 1981. By 1982, the
group was broken up.

The four singers of Swedish pop group ABBA in 1977.
From left: Benny Anderson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog,
and Bjorn Ulvaeus.AP
Photo

In 2000, amida revival of several of their
hits, an
American-British consortium offered the group $1 billion to
reunite for 100 shows, but they declined the offer, according
to E!
Online.

"It's a hell of a lot of money to say no to, but we
decided it wasn't for us,"
Andersson told Swedish tabloidAftonbladet in 2000.

Bjorn Ulvaeus and Frida Synni Lyngstad, former ABBA
members who were not married, reunited at the at the ABBA World
exhibition in London in 2010.AP
Photo/Joel Ryan

Andersson and bandmate Bjorn Ulvaeus both argue that popular
reincarnations of their songs (many by teen group S
Club 7) have been
successful because the group never reunited.

"We have never made a comeback," Ulvaeus told the paper. "Almost
everyone else has. I think there's a message in that."

Fältskog explained to Radio Times last year:
"We said no because they wanted 250 shows or something, it was
incredible. No chance. We had done it.

Lyngstad also confirmed this year to Ireland's RTE that "no amount
of money would change our minds. Maybe we sometimes say it would
be good to do a song together again, just a recording and nothing
else, but I don’t know if that will happen — so
don’t say that we will!"

Despite the fact that the foursome recently reunited — the "chemistry was
still there" — all members said they were not tempted to
reunite.

The four founding members are doing just fine since the group's
break-up 32 years ago.